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A “Shade Thrower” from Freddy Schwenk at @geistnashville. The recipe calls for a half ounce of Averna, but I had to improvise with a 1/4 of Meletti and a 1/4 of Cynar instead. 🤷🏻‍♂�...

https://scientistmcgee.wordpress.com/2023/08/22/shade-thrower/

I present “The Fortress”, named after Coach Carnell’s reference to City Park after the Sporting KC victory. St. Louis CITY SC is St. Louis’ MLS soccer club, and this drink was created and...

https://scientistmcgee.wordpress.com/2023/08/22/a-tribute-to-st-louis-city-s-c/

A drink discovered in the pages of the latest Imbibe magazine, a drink from 1892 called the “Appetizer à l’Italienne”. It appeared in William Schmidt’s book “The Flaming Bowl”. It’...

https://scientistmcgee.wordpress.com/2023/01/30/980/

Enjoyed a “lazy bones Sunday” yesterday with a Japanese Cocktail. 2oz brandy1/2oz orgeat2d @angosturahouse bittersshake w/ ice and straingarnished w/ an orange twist

https://scientistmcgee.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/japanese-cocktail/

This variation of one my favorite cocktails I dreamed up, “The Spectator”, is just as good as the original I think. The “Spectator version 2” swaps out the blanco tequila with reposado te...

https://scientistmcgee.wordpress.com/2022/07/23/a-couple-of-spectators-for-fans-of-tequila/

I had my first taste ever of pommeau last week and I’m in love. Just outside of Traverse City, MI, I visited a cidery called Tandem Ciders. While there, my wife and I enjoyed a flight of ciders...

https://scientistmcgee.wordpress.com/2022/06/26/i-like-pommeau/

A simple drink that I really love. I discovered this drink at an old restaurant that is no longer… Water Street in Maplewood, MO (a nice town just west of St. Louis). Robert Treat Special 1.5oz...

https://scientistmcgee.wordpress.com/2022/06/10/robert-treat-special-w-dubonnet/

After having first tasted this delicious drink at Disney World, called a “Brandy Antigua” there, I had to have my own bottle of the crema de alba liqueur. The trouble is it’s really hard to...

https://scientistmcgee.wordpress.com/2022/06/10/finally/

Now in its 9th year, the newly updated “Scientist McGee’s Drinks Menu & Manual” features 33 new drinks (pages 137-153)! This printable book collects the drinks I’ve mixed up and enjoyed ...

https://scientistmcgee.wordpress.com/2020/09/03/the-9th-edition-of-the-scientist-mcgee-drinks-menu-manual-is-here/

Tonight’s quarantini happy hour is a “Blackjack” by Jacques Straub in 1914 and published in the 2011 @pdtnyc book… Made with 1 1/2oz brandy, 1/2oz kirschwasser, 1/2oz cold brew coffee, an...

https://scientistmcgee.wordpress.com/2020/05/04/blackjack/